<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/30/2008 3:18:36 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, ricb@pianostemmer.no writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Seems to me there is no inherent purpose of the viol family instrument <BR>to play perfect intervals of any sort.  Rather it is simply to make <BR>beautiful music...which of course includes the ability to blend in --- <BR>pitch wise also --- with any/all accompanying instruments as best is <BR>possible.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>That's exactly what I mean, the ability to blend in pitchwise is wonderful. Now when you say the viol family, you probably mean the violin family. Viol family instruments have frets on the fingerboard. After you tune them the pitches are fixed like on a piano and the intervals are tempered. </FONT></DIV> <DIV>The violin family instruments do not. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jean-Luc</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient <A title="http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007" href="http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007" target="_blank">used cars</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>